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Bill Shillito
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The trick is to use logarithms to extract the exponents!
We do a three-step procedure:
1. Take logarithms of the value.
2. Find the arithmetic mean.
3. Undo the logarithm with an exponential function.
What we get is the geometric mean.
(Fun exercise: check this algebraically!)
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2025-10-09T02:23:22.471Z